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	<title>Nurses Station Blog</title>
	
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		<title>Sebelius: Americans should get flu vaccination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pulled from AOL news 
Sebelius: Americans should get flu vaccination
WASHINGTON -Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appealed anew Wednesday for widespread inoculation against a surging swine flu threat, calling the vaccine &#8220;safe and secure.&#8221;
Sebelius unconditionally vouched for the safety of the vaccine, saying it &#8220;has been made exactly the same way seasonal vaccine has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Live to 100</title>
		<link>http://nursesdirect.crtdirectblogs.com/?p=399</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pulled from yahoo news and written by Dr. Maoshing Ni 
People often ask me if it is actually possible to live to age 100, especially if they had bad habits in the past. I always answer that while aging is inevitable, poor health is not. Read on to find the most effective ways to live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waves of new fund cuts imperil US nursing homes</title>
		<link>http://nursesdirect.crtdirectblogs.com/?p=395</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article pulled from Yahoo news and written by Dave Collins
HARTFORD, Conn. – The nation&#8217;s nursing homes are perilously close to laying off workers, cutting services — possibly even closing — because of a perfect storm wallop from the recession and deep federal and state government spending cuts, industry experts say.
A Medicare rate adjustment that cuts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching and it’s Challenges - by Sharon, RN</title>
		<link>http://nursesdirect.crtdirectblogs.com/?p=393</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaching is a passion of mine. I have recently finally begun to utilize my Master’s degree in Nursing Education. I began teaching labor and delivery/maternity clinical to LPN students. Although I do thoroughly enjoy it….it can often be challenging.
When I accepted the position of clinical instructor for an LPN program I was very excited. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Travel Nursing’ and the Nursing Shortage</title>
		<link>http://nursesdirect.crtdirectblogs.com/?p=390</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I pulled this portion of an article from the Access Nurses website. There are so many articles on Nursing shortages, and I will probably post more in the future, but I liked that this portion of the article spoke about the option and some benefits of being a Traveling Nurse. 
&#8220;Travel nursing has been around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart attack swine flu link discovered</title>
		<link>http://nursesdirect.crtdirectblogs.com/?p=386</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanted to share this article that I Pulled from the nursingtimes.net. Wondering if any nurses/health-care workers have heard this research theory? Should heart patients be encouraged to have the H1N1 vaccine?
Heart attack swine flu link discovered.
UK scientists have called on the Government to offer the swine flu vaccine to patients with heart conditions after research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Documentation - by Sharon, RN</title>
		<link>http://nursesdirect.crtdirectblogs.com/?p=383</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nursesdirect.crtdirectblogs.com/?p=383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Computer documentation is the wave of the future. Whether we like it or not hospitals, if they haven’t already, are moving into paperless documentation. I thought I should talk about this subject since it is a very current topic.  Personally I really like computer documentation for several reasons; legibility, accessibility, accountability.
Let’s start with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tooth Implant Restores Vision…..</title>
		<link>http://nursesdirect.crtdirectblogs.com/?p=380</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tooth Implant in Woman&#8217;s Eye Helps Her See Again
This article was pulled from Fox news&#8230;.isn&#8217;t it amazing what they can do these days!!!!
A 60-year-old Mississippi woman can finally see again after nine years of blindness.
Earlier this month, surgeons implanted Sharron “Kay” Thornton’s tooth inside her eye, which holds a prosthetic lens in place, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Orientation… - by Sharon, RN</title>
		<link>http://nursesdirect.crtdirectblogs.com/?p=377</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nursesdirect.crtdirectblogs.com/?p=377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Should all nurses receive the same orientation regardless of their backgrounds? As an educator, I have to say that one of my pet peeves is a facility that does not cater the orientation around the new employees experience or lack there of.  As a nurse on orientation, I have to say that I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama tells nurses time for healthcare overhaul at hand.</title>
		<link>http://nursesdirect.crtdirectblogs.com/?p=374</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama tells nurses time for healthcare overhaul at hand.
Pulled from the Herald Democrat and written by RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR 
WASHINGTON &#8212; Trumpeting nurses&#8217; support for health care reform while lamenting a worsening toll of the nation&#8217;s uninsured, President Barack Obama kept up the pressure for congressional action on Thursday. 
&#8220;We don&#8217;t need more partisan distractions,&#8221; Obama [...]]]></description>
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